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...rendered in the style of Grandma Moses. The demons who emerge from the earth are those old familiars-the Snopeses-and the earth is the red clay of Yoknapatawpha County, Miss. Yet Faulkner is not what he appears to be-a regional novelist; he is a novelist of the nether regions...
...Penny for the Poor, possibly because its turn-of-the-century London setting scarcely conformed to the modish social-protest patterns of the '30s. Social protest the book certainly is, but of an unsparing misanthropy that crosses all class lines. In a dimly lit nether world of total amorality, human sharks snap at and devour each other as instinctively as do their marine cousins on the ocean floor...
Other vices lead to other dooms. Gerald's professional colleagues brain each other in peevish academic pillow fights. His onetime charwoman, a raffish comic delight of a character, is picked up for petty shoplifting. Through his younger son's perverted pals, Gerald is introduced to a nether world of catty infighting governed by the rule of cadge-as-cadge...
Gleave is head of the Foreign Office's American desk (Maclean's old job). Like many of his kind, he is crushed beneath the upper millstone of parvenu wealth (which he despises) and the nether millstone of the privileged working class, symbolized by a State housing development which will take from him his mortgaged home. Gleave is in the grip of the constant, twitching fear that he and his family will fall into the anonymous abyss of "the proles." His wife has to do the cooking! Gleave is offered a job in commerce at five times his Foreign...
...Chicago Tribune's ebullient publisher, Colonel Robert R. ("Bertie") McCormick, 74, left his annual hibernation in Florida with pains in his nether regions, was reported out of the hospital and doing fine in Chicago after surgery for abdominal adhesions...